British filmmaker Leslee Udwin’s documentary featuring interviews of the men convicted of the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman was at the centre of a controversy on Tuesday as Delhi Police said they would go to court to stop the airing of the film.

India and Pakistan on Tuesday agreed to work together on narrowing their differences and finding common ground on mutual concerns, the first tentative step towards resuming dialogue after a six-month freeze in ties following the cancellation of foreign secretary-level talks last year.

A raging row within the Aam Aadmi Party appeared to have blown over as a rebel faction against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal struck a conciliatory note on Tuesday, but sources said differences were likely to simmer under the surface.

Kohli then called Sumit Ghosh, reporter of Bangla daily Ebela reporter, and had a short conversation with him. The next moment Sumit, an old friend of mine, walked toward me and said, “Sidhu, he has apologised to you for his behaviour. He mistook you for a reporter from another English daily... It was mistaken identity.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday disapproved of Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's statement that Pakistan, Hurriyat and militants created a conducive atmosphere for elections in the state.

For a person who made a documentary film on the December 2012 gang-rape in Delhi and subsequent nationwide protests as a "gift to India", it comes as a bit of a shock for Leslee Udwin to be accused of giving a platform to the convicted rapists.

Nigeria's Islamist sect Boko Haram released a video purporting to show it beheading two men, its first online posting using advanced graphics and editing techniques reminiscent of footage from Islamic State.

Top batsman Virat Kohli suddenly lost his cool after the Indian cricket team’s training session in Perth on Tuesday and abused journalist Jasvinder Sidhu, who is covering the World Cup for Hindustan Times.

Aam Aadmi Party founding member Shanti Bhushan called for truce in the party on Tuesday, hours after his son and party leader Prashant Bhushan virtually accused Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of running a personality cult.

Indian foreign secretary S Jaishankar reiterated India's concern over cross-border terrorism and the Mumbai attacks trial as he met his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhary during his visit to Islamabad on Tuesday.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is scheduled to take 10 days off from work for naturopathy treatment starting March 5, sources in the Aam Aadmi Party said on Tuesday. Kejriwal would leave for Bangalore a day after the party's national executive meeting on Wednesday, the sources added.

Amid protests over land acquisition bill, finance minister Arun Jaitley has said that the BJP-led government is trying to "radically alter" the 2013 land bill to ensure developmental activities especially in rural areas.

It has been a while since undercurrents of dissent started swirling within the Aam Aadmi Party. The murmurs became louder and stronger with a letter written by Admiral L Ramdas, the AAP's internal lokpal, pointing out the growing resentment within the party's ranks and the need to analyse Arvind Kejriwal's position as the national convener.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Prashant Bhushan said on Tuesday he felt the AAP should be absolutely firm on its ethical principles but Delhi chief minister and party convener Arvind Kejriwal once told him they needed to make certain compromises in politics.

The slaughter of cows, bulls, bullocks and calves, is now completely banned in Maharashtra under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (amendment) Act (MAPA), 1995, which received President Pranab Mukherjee’s nod on Monday.

Nemtsov had been one of few Russian liberals brave enough to denounce Putin’s extensive undercover military support for the separatist rebels in Ukraine. He described the way Putin had annexed Crimea, using masked special forces, as “illegal”, though he recognised a majority of Crimeans wanted to join Russia.

Large scale deforestation in the high latitudes – the boreal regions – could affect rainfall in the monsoonal regions of tropics, new research by the Indian Institute of Science published on Tuesday shows.

Indian foreign secretary S Jaishankar, who started his 'Saarc yatra' on Sunday with Bhutan and visited Bangladesh the day after, will be in Pakistan on Tuesday to hold talks with his counterpart Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhary and later call on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Stoking a controversy, senior MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi on Monday termed the RSS as a "club of bachelors" and said that those who advocate producing more children have no right to say so as they themselves are not married.

Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav, who is in the middle of a rift within the AAP, has said he will be a part of the party as long as it continues to work for the people and nurture their hopes.

AAP’s national executive member Anand Kumar tells Hindustan Times that talks are underway to find a conciliatory path between Delhi chief minister and party chief Arvind Kejriwal, and the Bhushan-Yadav duo.

In the midst of allegations, counter-allegations and leaked letters, the Aam Aadmi Party has decided to hold a meeting of its national executive on Wednesday to discuss the roles of senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan in the party.

Revelations by some rescued girls have blown the lid off the flourishing human trafficking racket in Jharkhand’s tribal hinterlands, a hotbed of modern day slavery where family members, neighbours, local politicians and even NGOs are involved in well-organised rings.

The PDP demanded the return of executed terrorist Afzal Guru’s mortal remains on Monday, a day after Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed gave a rocky start to the party’s coalition with the BJP by crediting separatist leaders, militants and Pakistan for the smooth conduct of assembly elections.

The aftershocks of Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s comments crediting Pakistan for peaceful polls in his state rocked Parliament on Monday, with an in the Lok Sabha and a cornering of the ruling party in the Rajya Sabha.

People in Delhi woke up to a rainy morning with the minimum temperature recorded at 14.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season's average. The Met Office has forecast more rain and an overcast day ahead.

For one thing, with his identity known, and the global distribution of pictures of him looking slightly goofy in an ill-fitting Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap, Emwazi may become less sinister to viewers, less able to send chills up the spines of people who abhor Islamic State's claim to be killing civilians in the name of Islam.

Soon after taking oath on Sunday, Sayeed had said credit must be given to people from across the border, an oblique reference to Pakistan, Hurriyat and militant outfits, for "allowing conducive atmosphere" for assembly polls.

A storm was headed for the Aam Aadmi Party on Monday with senior leader Prashant Bhushan accusing the party of running a "one person-centric" campaign that revolved around Arvind Kejriwal during the Delhi elections and was contrary to the party's principles.

In what could be an indication of the Centre’s changing approach towards probes into instances of so-called “Hindu terror”, the NDA government asked the NIA not to challenge the Andhra high court giving bail to two accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case, sources told HT.

Three financial documents – finance commission report, railway and general budgets – presented in the past week have exposed a political rift developing between the allies Narendra Modi and Nara Chandrababu Naidu.

Six years after he was accused of financing and executing the Mumbai attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi is living in luxury in a jail in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi, with access to mobile phones and the internet and receiving scores of visitors every day.

The government's budget was praised on Sunday as balancing the need to boost business and help the poor, but some experts were disappointed at a lack of big-bang reforms to Asia's third largest economy.

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